Freedom of religion- what are your rights?

I am going to write about one of the human rights, which is the
freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is a universal right,
which means that the whole world’s countries have it. It is the
same with all human rights. They are universal and indivisible
which means that no right is bigger than the other. The freedom
of religion is very important for almost everyone. This right
says that the human has the right to believe in whatever he/she
wants and thinks (in a religious way) how he/she wants. The human
also has the right to do his/her traditions and to celebrate
feasts in other countries than his/her own.

Free religion

The human being has, in almost every country, the right to choose
religion and what the person wants to believe in. You can for
example believe in God and the Trinity like in the Christianity,
or in many different Gods with different powers, such as
Hinduism. Or maybe you do not want to believe in a God but in
Karma and the ”Life circulation,” which means you are a Buddhist.

You also have the rights to convert to a different religion. You
can also leave your religion and become an Atheist (someone who
does not believe in any God).

Prevented rings

There are governments in many countries that do not have freedom
of religion and do try to prevent people from converting or
choosing a religion. There are even many countries that use
violence if a person, for example converts to another religion
different from the majority of their own country's. Other people
can also try to prevent this right by using violence or starting
a war.

In Sweden, it often happens that people get threatened, beaten or
even murdered because they change or choose a different religion.
You can sometimes read articles about a woman, for example, who
has changed her religion, or married a man who has different
religion, and was threatened because of it.

Traditions

Freedom of religion does also involve rights to exert the
religion and its traditions. This means that you can have
celebrations and feasts that belong to your religion and you are
free to use objects that you need for rituals and ceremonies. You
do also have the freedom to spread, write, teach and educate
within, communicate in a religious way and also use religious
symbols.

Freedom of religion is as earlier mentioned one of the
important human rights and it has many positive things but there
are also things that are negative. For example, not every country
follows these rights and many people are judged, threatened and
beaten because of them. One of the positive things with this type
of freedom is that you are free to believe in and do whatever you
want and that is even more positive when it comes to how
important religion is to people.

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